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By Jennifer Busick Spills, especially of hazardous material, are a great threat workplace safety. Are your employees trained in their control and containment? Guest columnist Jennifer Busick has tips for employers.
Yesterday’s Advisor covered employment branding from the standpoint of the employer. Today, we present what outsiders contribute to your employment brand.
On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. One of its provisions has been dubbed “no taxes on tips” and provides a tax deduction of up to $25,000 for tips received by employees. The provision is retroactive to January 1, 2025, so certain payroll and reporting changes […]
Last week I spent a few days with members of the Employers Counsel Network, a group of people that our company works with closely on a regular basis. We tend to get together formally as a group once each year to catch up, discuss business, and strengthen our bonds. It’s a great meeting that mixes […]
You may think working at your company has you in a rat race, but at a Wisconsin company, employees are in a roach race—literally! And this company also holds bedbug training camps. Well, not to train the vermin. So you probably have guessed that the company is a pest management firm. NewsRadio 620/WTMJ reports that […]
Universally, HR managers wish that intermittent leave would just go away. Unfortunately, every HR department has to cope with its traps and technicalities. Today’s Advisor covers nine tricky aspects of intermittent and reduced schedule leave.” 1. Only for Medical Necessity There must be a medical need for intermittent leave or leave on a reduced leave […]
By Kyle Emshwiller A few weeks ago, we reported on a “would you rather” survey that highlighted some surprising preferences, including that 38 percent would rather go to work than landscape. If we were surprised then, we are shocked now. Mashable recently reported on a Harris Interactive poll that looked into the frustration behind changing […]
Continuing in the spirit of the awards season, my next category is “Most Ineffective HR Moment.” And the nominees are: When human resources manager Toby told Dwight that his grievances were sent to Dundler Mifflin’s corporate office in New York while they were actually thrown into a box underneath Toby’s desk. When Toby elects to […]
Accommodation. “Sometimes it can be overwhelming,” concedes the Job Accommodation Network (JAN). But a good job description is a “constructive tool” for focusing on reasonable accommodations. JAN is a service of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy. JAN offers the following accommodation scenarios to show how to match job description requirements […]
Today’s Advisor shares information from a recent report at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that you can use as a benchmark for your own safety training.